the california governor, good afternoon newsom, set to speak with members of media. you see that on the left-hand side of the screen as he visits monterey park, the latest city in this country to be devastated by gun violence. we are just learning in the last couple of minutes that yet another person has now died. somebody who is being treated for their injuries, did not survive. that brings the number of people killed to 11. the shooting at a ballroom dance hall on saturday. we will bring more live with more what we re learning today on who these victims are. the investigation into this alleged shooter, his motive, after he died by suicide on sunday as police closed in. i m hallie jackson in washington. let s get you right out to california now with nbc news correspondent josh lederman, live first in monterey park, justice and intelligence correspondent den dilanian and federal former prosecutor and georgetown law professor and msnbc legal analyst paul butler. josh, let me s
meet the press, and dick durbin, number two senate democrat, on cnn, end up responding to president biden s remarks from last week, that i have no regrets on how i ve handled this, and there s no there there to these classified documents that are being discovered. both manchin and durbin ended up saying yes, there is some there there. that you should be up front, and admit, admit a mistake, to be able to have classified information like. that and both manchin and durbin walked through their experiences as senators dealing with classified information. the rigors, the scif rooms that you have to go and questioned on these types of happenings, and tranches of documents coming from president biden s residences or former offices. now hallie, as you gist mentioned, it is important to, as you just mentioned, it is important to note, as senators man chichb and durbin did, there are big differences how president biden has handled there versus donald trump.
injunction basically to force him to follow the law. and again, we really shouldn t be surprised you know, many people may not know this. but the director attorney of los angeles george gascón has never actually tried a case. he s never appeared in court. the only time that he s ever appeared in court is because he s being sued by one of his employees for retaliation. so sir i have to ask you this because i ve heard this numerous amount of time that he hire affiliate folk out of the public defenders office. the rank in file that are there is it some of you gist that are talking about this or is the majority of you guys to feel like there s an issue going on where you cannot defend the people of los angeles? so that was one of the reasons why we as a organization decided to open up a vote to all of our members to make determination whether we should endorse the recall of george
injunction basically to force him to follow the law. and again, we really shouldn t be surprised you know, many people may not know this. but the director attorney of los angeles george gascón has never actually tried a case. he s never appeared in court. the only time that he s ever appeared in court is because he s being sued by one of his employees for retaliation. so sir i have to ask you this because i ve heard this numerous amount of time that he hire affiliate folk out of the public defenders office. the rank in file that are there is it some of you gist that are talking about this or is the majority of you guys to feel like there s an issue going on where you cannot defend the people of los angeles? so that was one of the reasons why we as a organization decided to open up a vote to all of our members to make determination whether we should endorse the recall of george
the media landscape is different today today than 16 years ago. i will say there is a strategy out there to use leaks to push along the president s agenda. that goes to any white house, republicans or democrats so they do have their place in the world. i will also say this, if you ve taken a job and you feel like you need to pick up a reporter to make yourself feel better, that s not good. it s not good for the office of president and the president s agenda. you gist in that white house to serve the people, to serve the constitution and press the president s agenda. not to undermine the president s agenda. i would advise folks if you re not part of any greater strategy to push along the agenda, you probably should stop. 30 seconds, when did you ever leak? i don t know if you ll tell us that and how do you get somebody to respond to it? do you get in trouble? if you re not part of any internal strategy to leak information about the president s agenda you could possibly be in trouble